The remote equatorial nighttime observatory of ionospheric regions project and the international heliospherical year

Jonathan J. Makela; John W. Meriwether; Jose P. Lima; Ethan S. Miller; Shaun J. Armstrong

doi:10.1007/s11038-008-9289-0

The remote equatorial nighttime observatory of ionospheric regions project and the international heliospherical year

Jonathan J. Makela, John W. Meriwether, Jose P. Lima, Ethan S. Miller, Shaun J. Armstrong

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We describe a new suite of instruments planned for deployment to Cape Verde as part of the International Heliospherical Year. The Remote Equatorial Nighttime Observatory of Ionospheric Regions (RENOIR) project consists of a bistatic Fabry-Perot interferometer system, an all-sky imaging system, a dual-frequency Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, and an array of single-frequency GPS scintillation monitors. This instrumentation will allow for studying the low-latitude thermosphere/ionosphere (TI) system in great detail. Investigations to be conducted using this instrumentation while in Cape Verde include studying equatorial irregularity processes, the effects of neutral winds and gravity waves on irregularity development, the midnight temperature maximum, and ion-neutral coupling in the nighttime TI system. Initial observations from the RENOIR instrumentation during pre-deployment testing at the Urbana Atmospheric Observatory are presented, as is the deployment scenario for the project in Cape Verde.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	211-226
Number of pages	16
Journal	Earth, Moon and Planets
Volume	104
Issue number	1-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11038-008-9289-0
State	Published - 2009

Keywords

Airglow measurements
Ionosphere
Neutral winds
Thermosphere

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Astronomy and Astrophysics
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
Space and Planetary Science

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